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Depends on your definition of magic.

In order to have this conversation go anywhere meaningful, we'd all have to agree on what magic is exactly.
And judging from all the posting here, we cannot.
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I've seen lots of people be seriously injured but still walking seconds after the incident.

The full brunt of the injuries aren't so obvious right off the bat, and it could have been shock that had him running away.
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Just replace the word Nazis with something like jews, black people or sjws and the sign its self would cause outrage.

That alone is a good enough reason to have it removed.

Her outrage is unjustified.
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demonfang178 posted...

I am assuming you put the game on Hard...

To be fair, before you realize how much you have to abuse the double gear system to do any good at all, the game does seem a little hard.

It's all about the speed gear though.
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ChaoticKnuckles posted...

What about the people who get an injury, are prescribed opiates, and then become addicted to those? How is that their fault?

Maybe I just have a high tolerance for it, but I've never taken an opiate to be able to cope with pain from any kind of injury or illness. I've had multiple fractures and broken bones. Suffered kidney stones, I had a dental abscess, many things which cause pretty serious pain. I've been prescribed opiates for a lot of these, but it was my choice not to get them filled, and to just either deal with it or take something over the counter.

Just because a doctor says "take this" doesn't absolve you from the responsibility of the consequences you suffer as a result of taking it. And it certainly doesn't mean you have to take it either.
It's their fault because they weren't forced to take it, and because they weren't informed enough to know they could become addicted to it. Again, this is placing the blame somewhere other than yourself.

I don't think addicts are weak, or weak minded either. They show just how strong-willed and sound of mind they are through the actions they take to get their "fix".

Addicts are perfectly reasonable people. Their lives are just so shitty that the only rational decision they can make is to "get high".

Calling addiction a disease is like calling poverty a disease.
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Solid Sonic posted...

I wish the sparkling grape juice came in 2 liters, though. Would make a good soda substitute.

Dude, just buy a soda stream and make your own sparkling grape juice.
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kind9 posted...

But you previously said you can't develop addiction as a result of genetics. A hard statement. Now you're saying you may be at higher risk because of genetics. So which is it?

I'm sorry, do you need me to spell it out for you?
You can't develop addiction SOLELY based on genetics.
It requires exposure to the substance in question.

If you can't understand that, I don't know any other way to put it.

So, no, you CAN'T develop addictions as a result of genetics.
I never backpedaled, and I never contradicted myself.
You're just trying to find meaning in my words that isn't there.

wwinterj25 posted...

s*** bait. Your petulance is showing.

Says the guy who wants to shut me down because he doesn't like my opinion.

Again, learn to adult, my dude. We don't have to agree to have a civil discussion. "You shouldn't post, this thread should be closed." Is you trying to bar me from speaking on the subject at all. Which is childish.
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Muscles posted...

Lol, are you really gonna try to claim this when addiction most certainly runs in families? Because you are definitely at higher risk for alcoholism if your father/mother/grandparents were alcoholics

You misunderstand.

If everyone in my entire bloodline were alcoholics, that doesn't mean I am. I am only an alcoholic by becoming dependent on alcohol.

Sure, I may be at higher risk because of my genetics, but that certainly doesn't make me one by default.

What's so hard to understand here?
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Kyuubi4269 posted...

but only because we have a direct, more appropriate word already.

Gee, is that so?

I wonder if there's a word like that for someone who is physically dependent on drugs.
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Person106 posted...

Carbonated blood sounds cool.

Vampires love it.

Fierce_Deity_08 posted...

THEY. MAKE. SODA. WITHOUT. SUGAR.!!!!! This is my biggest pet peeve. No one is educated anymore.

Yes, because artificial sweeteners don't come with their own set of problems.

Nobody wants to drink fizzy water either.
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wwinterj25 posted...

Hopefully a mod will close this topic because your clearly trolling at this point and clearly have no understanding of the subject.

You sound like one of those SJWs who wants to shut down public speakers because you don't like what you're hearing.

Kyuubi4269 posted...

No, it because it's a disease. Any affliction that causes dis-ease is a disease, social approach to that is irrelevant.

Using that logic, gas pains and broken bones qualify as diseases.

I'll go so far as to say addiction is an affliction, a condition, or a behavioral disorder. But it's not a disease.

Kyuubi4269 posted...

Misunderstanding mate, I'm referring to gender dysphoria.

Let's be real and call it what it is. Gender Identity Disorder.

Something, again, that was changed because of feelings.
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The tongue of a scorned woman.
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If you're gonna do a solo Auron run, you should also make it a no sphere-grid run.
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Specifically this version.
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Do me next.
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wwinterj25 posted...

I've said it before and I'll say it again. It's time to stop commenting on things you have no understanding of.

I have a perfect understanding of what I'm talking about. I'm sorry you don't like or agree with what I'm saying. If you really don't like it, you don't have to read it.

Do you see me trying to shut you and your shitty opinions down?

Learn to be a fucking adult and have a conversation. There's a thing called free speech and I'll continue to exercise it.
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Boys don't have periods, and men can't/don't menstruate.

Like the article says. It's simple biology.

Just because you feel like a girl doesn't make you one.
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Addiction is a behavioral disorder, or a condition.

But it's not a disease. You can't catch addiction, you can't be infected with addiction, you can't develop an addiction as a result of your genetics.

Only through repeated exposure to a substance can you become addicted to it.

And again. I'd like to see another "disease" that can be cured with money.
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_AdjI_ posted...

Dictionary.com disagrees.

Do you even know why they started calling it a disease in the first place?

It's because they realized that making people feel guilty contributed to addiction.

So when you put them in the mindset of "It's not my fault, I have a disease" instead of "I'm a piece of shit" it removes the responsibility from the person. It's not because it's actually a disease.

Looking for sources right now, but there was a study done in vermont where they paid people who had a long history of chronic addiction $500 a week if they could pass a drug test every day. I'm pretty sure this study lasted for a year. And they had a near 100% success rate.

If addiction IS a disease, then it's the only one in existence that can be cured with money.

Who'da thunk it?
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shadowsword87 posted...

You know, I don't think you have ever actually been addicted to something, or really listened to someone who was/is addicted.

You don't wake up every day feeling like you have smoke still in your mouth, you don't unconsciously hold your hands in certain positions just out of habit, you don't just daydream about having just a quick smoke.
That s*** doesn't go away, it lasts for the rest of your life, and that's not a joke.

Go smoke fifty cigarettes and see how easy it is to quit.

I am very addicted to cigarettes. I've tried quitting on more than 10 occasions and failed miserably.

That doesn't mean my addiction is a disease.

It just means I lack the willpower to give them up. Calling it a disease is beyond silly.
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wwinterj25 posted...

So drug babies that are addicted to drugs from birth deserve it? How about those with illnesses who become addicted to their medication?

In what bizarro world do either of those things remotely resemble self-inflicted injuries, or self perpetuated addiction.

Reach a little harder and you might just touch the sun.

Kyuubi4269 posted...

And addiction merely requires that you tank the symptoms for a while til your body balances out.

While I'm on your side. Physical dependency is a very real thing, and sometimes trying to tough out withdrawal symptoms can lead to death.
You're not sounding very smart right now.
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HippopotamusRex posted...

I've been complaining about the removal of slide and charge in MM9 and MM10 as the primary example of the Mega Man 2 bandwagoning since 2008.

It's as close as you can get to the blatant 'because Mega Man 2 did it' mentality and was incredibly obvious pandering to anyone who realized they deliberately moved the needle on his move list back to a specific...point.

Are you me?
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_AdjI_ posted...

Pretty much. Somebody else has already deemed them worthwhile, which takes some of the gamble out of being interested.

This is partly true, but if they're gonna cheat on their spouse with you.....odds are they'll end up cheating on you with someone else.
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_AdjI_ posted...

And those who were prescribed a reasonable dose of opioids because they were the best option for them and subsequently developed an addiction to them?

See

DrCidd posted...

Alright, you got me, I can shoot someone up with heroin against their will to the point that they become physically addicted to it. That still doesn't make it a disease.

It's like you didn't bother reading the topic.
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DirtBasedSoap posted...

marijuana is for degenerate losers. smoke your gross skunk nugs, Ill actually do something with my life thank you very much.

Get a load of this guy!

Probably blowing the cheetos crumbs off his shirt as I type this.

Lots of people who are way more successful than you will ever be are marijuana users.
Get off your high horse.
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aHappySacka posted...

and if your so called "iconic" abilities are so important then why were they removed in Mega Man 9 and 10?

They were removed because of the pedastal that all the megaman 2 fanboys have placed it on.

"Megaman 2 is the most popular game, let's copy it to the letter so this new game will sell just as well."

Plus, if they remove said abilities, they can just give them to another character (Protoman) and sell it as DLC.

Why do you think they were brought back with Megaman 11? Because they realized how dumb it was to take them out in the first place.
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SmokeMassTree posted...

It's not tho

Are you a grower who sells to dispensaries?
Do you personally know one?
Have you even looked into it?

You seem awful confident in that uninformed assumption.
Do a little research before you make a claim like that.
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Mead posted...

Dude I just watched a whole Ted talk talking about how legal marijuana is insanely potent to the point many people are concerned

Pure=/=Potent

It's probably also sprayed with pesticides too.
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I'm not against the use of marijuana. I've even been known to partake pretty regularly myself.

But making it legal will surely drive up prices, and potentially put hard working pot dealers out of business.

I'd much rather be able to acquire it with some semblance of anonymity. So while I think it'd be great, I also think it has it's fair share of problems.

I personally am fine with the status of it as it is, because where I live, the cops don't really give you any grief over it, unless you have a substantial amount, which I never do.
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Do me, daddy.
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Honestly, she should have just waited until he was 18. I mean, it's still kinda screwed up when you think about her having sex with her "son". But at least he'd be legal then, and it's not actually incest.

Also, pretty sure he would consider a great birthday present.
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JTekashiro posted...

(Dust Man???)

As if log man, toaster man, or disposable camera man are any better. Also bubble man and air man. Yes, air and bubbles....

If you're gonna criticize robot masters, you're just gonna have to go ahead and admit that they're all pretty bad, ok?

This coming from someone who adores the franchise as a whole.
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Judgmenl posted...

And this is coming from someone who has statistically played more Rockman games than you.

Well, I don't see how you could possibly know that. But I'll say pretty much all of them (including the power battle arcade titles) with the exception of the ones for gameboy.
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Xfma100 posted...

Hold up.

You do know some people take drugs unknowingly or by force right? Especially by people who abuse them?
And that certain drugs are inherently addictive? (This includes certain kinds of prescription medications.)

Alright, you got me, I can shoot someone up with heroin against their will to the point that they become physically addicted to it. That still doesn't make it a disease.
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CacciatoPart3 posted...

DrCidd posted...

Thanks Captain Obvious.

Dont say stupid shit if you dont want a response you dont like

Implying I believed that's the only way to get a disease.

Feel like contributing to the conversation, or just dropping in to be a dick?
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Far-Queue posted...

There's more than one way to contract a disease.

Thanks Captain Obvious.

The point is, you don't become addicted by anything outside of your control.
You can get aids by being splashed with infected blood. Or other diseases from a problem with your genetics.

You can't become a drug addict unless you choose abuse drugs. Nobody ever became a drug addict because their genetics decided so, or because an opioid molecule was floating through the air.
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Let's discuss, folks.

I don't think I ever met a drug addict who became addicted accidentally because the hobo down the street coughed on him.

Calling it a disease is just an excuse to say "It's not MY fault, it's a DISEASE!!!"

Okay, keep telling yourself that Methany.
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Go
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Blighboy posted...

Pretty sure we have several and none of them let me post inflation hentai.

Care to provide links?

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To the discord servers that is.
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wwinterj25 posted...

No to all questions, ok?

Fair answers
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Bandwagon effect also applies to FF7 and game of thrones.
And I love both of those, same as I love megaman 2.

Just sayin'
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Just curious.

Also, should it?

Would you join it?

Would it kill this message board?
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ParanoidObsessive posted...

DrCidd posted...

It's just that go-to quick pick option people chooses because they've heard it repeated so many times.

Except that, even 28 years ago, before any one was "repeating" anything, I still considered it the best one.

I had way more fun playing it than I did Mega Man 1 (it didn't help 1's case that I played 2 first). And while Mega Man 3 certainly added new elements that were cool or interesting, even then it didn't feel quite as fun as 2 did. Nor did the bosses in 3 feel as iconic or cool as the ones in 2.

From Mega Man 4 on, the games seem to keep getting progressively worse and less interesting, which ultimately led me to stop caring about the franchise entirely.

To this day, if you ask me which of the games I still remember most fondly, or which I would choose to play over any of the others, I'd pick 2 100% of the time. And that has nothing to do with what other people think of it, because if I was the sort of person who gave a fuck what other people think, I probably wouldn't dislike Ocarina of Time as much as I do.

I'm sorry you took it so personally. And that's your opinion, but that still doesn't change the fact the bandwagon effect is in place here.
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DPsx7, I'm not arguing that it's not a great game. It clearly is that.

What I'm arguing is that it's not the BEST.
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papercup posted...

It was the first one most people played. But it also refined the gameplay of the first game, and cut down or improved on the parts that didn't really work like climbing sections. It also cut out things that didn't really make sense to be in there, like the scoring system.

The first game has some really wonky level design when you look at it. The balancing is all over the place, and some things seem to be there just to annoy the player.

Okay so..doing away with some dumb ideas is how you become the best?
It's pretty clear that 3-6 were much more polished games in just about every way.

Mead posted...

Arent those mostly associated with the Megaman X titles?

X uses a forward leaning dash which doesn't help him through narrow passageways, rush isn't even mentioned in any of the megaman x games, and Megaman used charged shots before X existed. He even has charged shots in smash bros.

So, no, not really.
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It's just that go-to quick pick option people chooses because they've heard it repeated so many times.

First off, there is no Slide ability, there is no Charged buster, and there is no Rush.
3 things which are iconic to Megaman's history.

The robot bosses are arguably the easiest batch of the first 6 games, some even going down in as little as 1 or 2 hits.

Metal Blade turns the game into a total snooze-fest, and quick boomerang shreds any non-robot master boss. Alien-Wily being the exception.

You might argue 'but the music! it's so good!', and to that I say, have you not listened to the other megaman games? They ALL have pretty outstanding soundtracks.

So, what exactly makes this megaman game that lacks so much of what we associate with megaman, the BEST one?
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Is it me or does David Hogg have an extremely punchable face?
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If he were a bird's home, he would be Kanye Nest.
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Nade Duck posted...

SunWuKung420 posted...

JOExHIGASHI posted...

Miroku_of_Nite1 posted...

>not casting Shaq as the Genie.

or Sinbad

Should have been Kevin Hart.

robin williams

Katt Williams
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